Panasonic DMC-FX38 Digital Camera User Manual


 
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Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the Histogram
A histogram is a graph that displays brightness along the horizontal axis (black to white)
and the number of pixels at each brightness level on the vertical axis.
It allows you to easily check a picture’s exposure.
1 Dark area, mid-tone, and bright area are balanced out evenly, making it suitable to take
a picture.
2 The picture will become underexposed with more dark area. The pictures with mostly
dark area, such as night scenery, will also have a histogram like this.
3 The picture will become overexposed with more bright area. The pictures with mostly
white area will also have a histogram like this.
Examples of histogram
Note
When you take pictures with the flash or in dark places, the histogram is displayed in
orange because the recorded picture and the histogram do not match each other.
The histogram is an approximation in recording mode.
The histogram of a picture may not match in recording mode and playback mode.
The histogram displayed in this camera does not match histograms displayed by picture editing
software used in PCs etc.
1 Properly Exposed
2 Under Exposed
3 Overexposed
¢ Histogram
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